Note: Spring Breaks is a Big League Stew series that talks to players about their lives off the field during spring training. Today: Michael Bourn, the speedy centerfielder who joined the Cleveland Indians this offseason after years with the Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros and Philadelphia...
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - You know the knock on NASCAR drivers who become fathers: they get soft, they lose their edge, they stop driving out on the wrecking edge. It's not a hard-and-fast rule; Jimmie Johnson won a Cup soon after the birth of his daughter, and if we're not mistaken, Dale Earnhardt...
In 1989 a 29-year-old Michael Schrader had it all: steady job, a wife, and two wonderful children - daughter Courtney and son Cameron. He couldn't envision wanting more - that is, more children. Taking steps to keep his nuclear family intact, he underwent vasectomy - a procedure so routine he...